"""The Open Prairie"" theme and pioneers once again travelling west. Cowboy and folk tunes were heavily used, for instance: It also includes the Mexican Jarabe dance, played in 5/8 by a solo trumpet, just before ""Goodbye Old Paint"". The eight movements of the ballet make up the first seven tracks of jazz guitarist Bill Frisell's album ""Have a Little Faith"". Billy the Kid (ballet) Billy the Kid is a 1938 ballet written by the American composer Aaron Copland on commission from Lincoln Kirstein. It was choreographed by Eugene Loring for Ballet Caravan. Along with ""Rodeo"" and ""Appalachian Spring"", it is"
"Rodeo (ballet) Rodeo is a ballet composed by Aaron Copland and choreographed by Agnes de Mille, which premiered in 1942. Subtitled ""The Courting at Burnt Ranch"", the ballet consists of five sections: ""Buckaroo Holiday"", ""Corral Nocturne"", ""Ranch House Party,"" ""Saturday Night Waltz"", and ""Hoe-Down"". The symphonic version omits ""Ranch House Party"", leaving the other sections relatively intact. The original ballet was choreographed by Agnes de Mille for the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, a dance company that moved to the United States during World War II. In order to compete with the rival company Ballet Theatre, the Ballet Russe commissioned"
"easily by a mass audience. The ballet premiered in New York in 1939, with Copland recalling ""I cannot remember another work of mine that was so unanimously received."" Along with the ballet ""Rodeo"", ""Billy the Kid"" became, in the words of musicologist Elizabeth Crist, ""the basis for Copland's reputation as a composer of Americana"" and defines ""an uncomplicated form of American nationalism."" Copland's brand of nationalism in his ballets differed from that of European composers such as Béla Bartók, who tried to preserve the folk tones they used as close to the original as possible. Copland enhanced the tunes he"
"hometown of Tacoma, Washington. At age 14 he began his ballet studies with Jo Emery, and performed with her company, the Tacoma Performing Dance Company. His studies continued in New York at the School of American Ballet and the Joffrey Ballet School. He danced with Joffrey II before joining the Joffrey Ballet, where he performed principal roles in over 70 ballets, and toured throughout the world. His favorite roles include those performed in ""Billy the Kid"", ""Rodeo"", ""Romeo and Juliet"", and ""The Nutcracker"". He has appeared in television specials, and was featured in the Joffrey’s Billboards, a full-length rock ballet"
"Leonard Salzedo Leonard Salzedo (24 September 1921 – 6 May 2000) was an English composer and conductor of Spanish descent. Salzedo was born in London. He studied composition under Herbert Howells and violin under Isolde Menges at the Royal College of Music in London, before becoming a professional composer in 1944. He worked closely with the Ballet Rambert, for whom his first ballet, ""The Fugitive"", was commissioned. His most successful ballet was ""The Witch Boy"" based on the ‘Ballad of Barbara Allan’. He was musical director of the Ballet Rambert from 1967 to 1972 and principal conductor with the Scottish"
"operated the commercially successful American School of Dance in Hollywood along those principles, and from 1965 developed them in a university educational setting, on invitation by Dean Clayton Garrison to chair the Department of Dance within the School of Fine Arts of the newly formed University of California, Irvine. Loring retired from UCI in 1981, returned to New York State but died a year later, aged seventy-one. Loring's most popular choreographed work, ""Billy the Kid"", is sometimes compared with Agnes de Mille's later ""Rodeo"". Like ""Rodeo"", ""Billy the Kid"" has a score by Aaron Copland and draws on the mythology"
"Boléro Boléro is a one-movement orchestral piece by the French composer Maurice Ravel (1875–1937). Originally composed as a ballet commissioned by Russian actress and dancer Ida Rubinstein, the piece, which premiered in 1928, is Ravel's most famous musical composition. Before ""Boléro"", Ravel had composed large-scale ballets (such as ""Daphnis et Chloé"", composed for the Ballets Russes 1909–1912), suites for the ballet (such as the second orchestral version of ""Ma mère l'oye"", 1912), and one-movement dance pieces (such as ""La valse"", 1906–1920). Apart from such compositions intended for a staged dance performance, Ravel had demonstrated an interest in composing re-styled dances,"
"Guidi studied under Raoul Pausé for many years, himself a former student of Ballets Russes dancer and choreographer Adolf Bolm, and thus inherited the Ballet Russes tradition of fusing classical training with unrestrained choreographic possibilities. Noted revivals by Oakland Ballet include works by renowned choreographers Kurt Jooss, Michel Fokine, Charles Weidman, and Antony Tudor and the first re-staging of works by Bronislava Nijinska in the United States. Championing American masterpieces as well, Oakland Ballet has presented Eugene Loring's ""Billy the Kid"", Ruthanna Boris's ""Cakewalk"", and Agnes de Mille's ""Fall River Legend"". Along with Guidi's own repertoire of choreography, Oakland Ballet"
"de Mille out of a career of relative obscurity. The choreographer was given considerable creative control, choosing Aaron Copland as the composer after being impressed by his previous ballet, ""Billy the Kid"". Though Copland was initially reluctant to compose ""another Cowboy ballet,"" De Mille persuaded him that this show would mark a significant departure from his previous work. As de Mille found herself occupied with instructing a highly international cast in the mannerisms of American cowboys, Copland recommended that Oliver Smith design the sets, in what would prove to be a prescient action. De Mille herself played the lead, and"
"concludes the ballet. Robin Hood (ballet) Robin Hood is a ballet created by choreographer and artistic director Paul Vasterling for the Nashville Ballet in 1998. The full-length ballet is in two acts and contains the music of Erich Wolfgang Korngold. Although Korngold wrote music to the 1938 movie ""The Adventures of Robin Hood"", no music from the film is used in the ballet. Korngold’s early chamber music is used, as well as his Theme and Variations, Op. 42, and movements from both his Symphony in F-sharp major and Violin Concerto. The suite ""Much Ado About Nothing"" is used extensively in"
"Apollo (ballet) Apollo (originally Apollon musagète and variously known as ""Apollo musagetes"", ""Apolo Musageta"", and ""Apollo, Leader of the Muses"") is a neoclassical ballet in two ""tableaux"" composed between 1927 and 1928 by Igor Stravinsky. It was choreographed in 1928 by twenty-four-year-old George Balanchine, with the composer contributing the libretto. The scenery and costumes were designed by André Bauchant, with new costumes by Coco Chanel in 1929. The scenery was executed by Alexander Shervashidze, with costumes under the direction of Mme. A. Youkine. The American patron of the arts Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge had commissioned the ballet in 1927 for a"
"Robin Hood (ballet) Robin Hood is a ballet created by choreographer and artistic director Paul Vasterling for the Nashville Ballet in 1998. The full-length ballet is in two acts and contains the music of Erich Wolfgang Korngold. Although Korngold wrote music to the 1938 movie ""The Adventures of Robin Hood"", no music from the film is used in the ballet. Korngold’s early chamber music is used, as well as his Theme and Variations, Op. 42, and movements from both his Symphony in F-sharp major and Violin Concerto. The suite ""Much Ado About Nothing"" is used extensively in both acts and"
"moved to Brooklyn with his family and attended New Utrecht High School. He became interested in dance after attending a modern dance performance, and went on to study under Blanche Evan, a dancer and choreographer. He studied chemical engineering at the City College of New York, in 1936 and 1937, but left after being granted a scholarship to the School of American Ballet. He toured the country as a member of the corps de ballet of Lincoln Kirstein’s Ballet Caravan, and performed in roles that included the lead in ""Billy the Kid"", choreographed by Eugene Loring, which featured an orchestral"
"the Columbia Broadcast System. This was one of his first pieces to convey the landscape of the American West. This emphasis on the frontier carried over to his ballet ""Billy the Kid"" (1938), which along with ""El Salón México"" became his first widespread public success. Copland's ballet music established him as an authentic composer of American music much as Stravinsky's ballet scores connected the composer with Russian music and came at an opportune time. He helped fill a vacuum for American choreographers to fill their dance repertory and tapped into an artistic groundswell, from the motion pictures of Busby Berkeley"
"Billy May Edward William May Jr. (November 10, 1916 – January 22, 2004) was an American composer, arranger and trumpeter. He composed film and television music for ""The Green Hornet"" (1966), ""The Mod Squad"" (1968), ""Batman"" (with ""Batgirl"" theme, 1967), and ""Naked City"" (1960). He collaborated on films such as ""Pennies from Heaven"" (1981), and orchestrated ""Cocoon"", and """", among others. May also wrote arrangements for many top singers, including Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Anita O'Day, Peggy Lee, Vic Damone, Bobby Darin, Johnny Mercer, Ella Fitzgerald, Jack Jones, Bing Crosby, Sandler and Young, Nancy Wilson, Rosemary Clooney, The Andrews"
"evokes a contest. Apollo (ballet) Apollo (originally Apollon musagète and variously known as ""Apollo musagetes"", ""Apolo Musageta"", and ""Apollo, Leader of the Muses"") is a neoclassical ballet in two ""tableaux"" composed between 1927 and 1928 by Igor Stravinsky. It was choreographed in 1928 by twenty-four-year-old George Balanchine, with the composer contributing the libretto. The scenery and costumes were designed by André Bauchant, with new costumes by Coco Chanel in 1929. The scenery was executed by Alexander Shervashidze, with costumes under the direction of Mme. A. Youkine. The American patron of the arts Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge had commissioned the ballet in"
"of the American West. However unlike de Mille's ballet, ""Billy the Kid"" offers a bleak vision of the frontier, with a protagonist more fittly characterized, according to one recent critic, as a ""murderous psychopath"". Two full, well-organized listings of collections of Loring's papers, letters, recordings, films etc. are available on line: Dance Heritage Coalition Eugene Loring Eugene Loring (August 2, 1911 – August 30, 1982) was an American dancer, choreographer, teacher, and administrator. Eugene Loring was born as Le Roy Kerpestein, the son of a saloon-keeper, grew up on a small island in the Milwaukee River in Wisconsin. He took"
"in ""Billy the Kid"", which enjoys status as the first American ballet classic, with an unbroken history of production since. After choreographic residence at Bennington College, Vermont, where he made some works, Loring joined Ballet Theatre (now ABT) in 1939, where, in that company's first season, he choreographed and danced in his ""The Great American Goof"", with libretto by William Saroyan. Loring, who began dancing in his father's saloon, was at ease with all kinds of dance: national, classic, modern, theater or not. He choreographed the Broadway musicals ""Carmen Jones"" and ""Silk Stockings"" and had an extensive career in Hollywood,"
"Serge Diaghilev's abstract ballets. ""Apollo"" and other works are still performed today, predominantly by the New York City Ballet. However, other companies are able to pay a fee for performance rights to George Balanchine's works. Frederick Ashton is another prominent choreographer associated with the neoclassical style. Three of his works have become standard pieces in the international repertoire: ""Sylvia"" (1952), ""Romeo and Juliet"" (1956), and ""Ondine"" (1958), the last of which was created as a vehicle to showcase Margot Fonteyn. One dancer who trained with Balanchine and absorbed much of this neo-classical style was Mikhail Baryshnikov. Following Baryshnikov's appointment as"
"La boîte à joujoux La boîte à joujoux (The Toy-Box) is a ballet score by Claude Debussy, orchestrated from Debussy's piano score by André Caplet. In 1913 Debussy was approached by the artist and writer André Hellé, who had devised a ballet scenario from his children’s tale ""La boîte à joujoux"". A children's theme appealed to Debussy, who was devoted to his own young daughter, Emma-Claude, (known as ""Chouchou""), and had already written his suite ""Children's Corner"" for her. He composed the piano score, but the outbreak of the First World War caused the ballet to be postponed, and it"
"Romeo and Juliet (Prokofiev) Romeo and Juliet (), Op. 64, is a ballet by Sergei Prokofiev based on William Shakespeare's play ""Romeo and Juliet"". Prokofiev reused music from the ballet in three suites for orchestra and a solo piano work. Based on a synopsis created by Adrian Piotrovsky (who first suggested the subject to Prokofiev) and Sergey Radlov, the ballet was composed by Prokofiev in September 1935 to their scenario which followed the precepts of ""drambalet"" (dramatised ballet, officially promoted at the Kirov Ballet to replace works based primarily on choreographic display and innovation). Following Radlov's acrimonious resignation from the"
"Billy the Kid movies for the next fifty years, as other filmmakers followed its formula and made the Kid an instrument of justified vengeance and his enemies the villains of the story. As Billy the Kid was reborn a romantic or tragic figure in literature and films of the 1920s–1940s; high culture began to turn its attention to his legend in the late 1930s. Lincoln Kirstein, co-founder with George Balanchine of the School of American Ballet, drew material from Burns' book to write the libretto for a ballet to be called ""Billy the Kid"", performed by his new group, the"
"""Ballet Caravan"". Composer Aaron Copland was commissioned to score the music, and Eugene Loring to do the choreography. The ballet premiered at the Chicago Civic Opera House on October 16, 1938, and has since become a repertory standard. Copland arranged the score for a concert suite that was performed and recorded in 1959 by Leonard Bernstein conducting the New York Philharmonic Orchestra; the recording was released by Columbia Records in 1960. ""The Outlaw"", starring Jack Buetel as Billy the Kid, Walter Huston as Doc Holliday, and Jane Russell in her first movie role, was produced by Howard Hughes and finished"
"Lucia Chase with a small group of dancers from the Mordkin Ballet. He remained with this company, renamed American Ballet Theatre in 1965, for twenty-five years, creating many important roles and participating in many historic events. Over the years, Kriza accumulated a vast and diverse repertory of roles. His most celebrated part was the title character of Eugene Loring's ""Billy the Kid"", with music by Aaron Copland and a story based on episodes from the life of the notorious but peculiarly appealing desperado of the Old West. Kriza also danced leading roles in Agnes de Mille's ""Rodeo, Tally-Ho,"" and ""Rib"
"leave the room (""Aroldo"", ""Luisa Miller""). La Capricciosa helps Moondog to his feet and they slowly go off, leaving a disconsolate Bootface; but they return and take him with them (""Ernani"", ""Aroldo""). In the final scene, back in the street, all three curl up to sleep on the bench (""Jérusalem"", ""Aroldo""). The Lady and the Fool The Lady and the Fool is a comic ballet, created by choreographer John Cranko with lesser-known operatic music by Giuseppe Verdi arranged by Sir Charles Mackerras. The story concerns the love of a poor clown for a society beauty, who finally rejects her wealthy"
"the Ballets Russes. For his new productions, Diaghilev commissioned the foremost composers of the 20th century, including: Debussy, Milhaud, Poulenc, Prokofiev, Ravel, Satie, Respighi, Stravinsky, de Falla, and Strauss. He was also responsible for commissioning the first two significant British-composed ballets: ""Romeo and Juliet"" (composed in 1925 by nineteen-year-old Constant Lambert) and ""The Triumph of Neptune"" (composed in 1926 by Lord Berners). The impresario also engaged conductors who were or became eminent in their field during the 20th century, including Pierre Monteux (1911–16 and 1924), Ernest Ansermet (1915–23), Edward Clark (1919–20) and Roger Désormière (1925–29). Diaghilev hired the young Stravinsky"
"Jeu de cartes (Balanchine) Jeu de cartes (Card Game) is a ballet in three ""deals"" by Igor Stravinsky composed in 1936–37, with libretto by the composer in collaboration with M. Malaieff (a friend of Stravinsky's eldest son ) and choreography by George Balanchine. The ballet was premiered by the American Ballet at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City on 27 April 1937, with the composer conducting. The European premier was on 13 October 1937 at the Dresden Staatsoper. The New York City Ballet premiere took place on 15 February 1951 under the title ""The Card Game"" at City Center"
"made two recordings with Kirov Orchestra in 2001 and London Symphony Orchestra in 2011. Romeo and Juliet (Prokofiev) Romeo and Juliet (), Op. 64, is a ballet by Sergei Prokofiev based on William Shakespeare's play ""Romeo and Juliet"". Prokofiev reused music from the ballet in three suites for orchestra and a solo piano work. Based on a synopsis created by Adrian Piotrovsky (who first suggested the subject to Prokofiev) and Sergey Radlov, the ballet was composed by Prokofiev in September 1935 to their scenario which followed the precepts of ""drambalet"" (dramatised ballet, officially promoted at the Kirov Ballet to replace"
"to choreograph nearly up to the time of her death—her final ballet, ""The Other"", was completed in 1992—most of her later works have dropped out of the ballet repertoire. Besides ""Rodeo"", two other de Mille ballets are performed on a regular basis, ""Three Virgins and a Devil"" (1934) adapted from a tale by Giovanni Boccaccio, and ""Fall River Legend"" (1948) based on the life of Lizzie Borden. On the strength of ""Rodeo"", de Mille was hired to choreograph the musical ""Oklahoma!"" (1943). The dream ballet, in which dancers Marc Platt, Katherine Sergava, and George Church doubled for the leading actors,"
"Chualann and Éamon de Buitléar's Ceoltóirí Laighean. The Chieftains arranged traditional music for ""The Playboy of the Western World"". Bernard Geary wrote the music for two ballets choreographed by Geoffrey Davidson for Irish Theatre Ballet: ""Bitter Aloes"" and ""Il Cassone"". Aloys Fleischmann composed the music for six Moriarty ballets: ""The Golden Bell of Ko"" (1948), ""An Cóitín Dearg"" [The Red Petticoat] (1951), ""Macha Ruadh"" [Red Macha] (1955), the two folk ballets ""Bata na bPlanndála"" [The Planting Stick] (1957) and ""Suite: The Cake Dance"" (1957) and ""The Táin"" (1981). This three-act ballet was commissioned by the Dublin Theatre Festival and premiered"
"live happily ever after. La boîte à joujoux La boîte à joujoux (The Toy-Box) is a ballet score by Claude Debussy, orchestrated from Debussy's piano score by André Caplet. In 1913 Debussy was approached by the artist and writer André Hellé, who had devised a ballet scenario from his children’s tale ""La boîte à joujoux"". A children's theme appealed to Debussy, who was devoted to his own young daughter, Emma-Claude, (known as ""Chouchou""), and had already written his suite ""Children's Corner"" for her. He composed the piano score, but the outbreak of the First World War caused the ballet to"
"""La Bayadére, Diana and Acteon, Don Quixote, Paquita Suite, The Sleeping Beauty"", and ""Swan Lake"", as well as ""Allegro Brillante, Theme and Variations, and Who Cares?"" while performing with Pennsylvania Ballet. In 1997 De Luz left Pennsylvania Ballet and joined American Ballet Theatre, (ABT) as a member of the corps de ballet. He was then promoted to soloist in 1998 where he performed roles in the Bronze Idol in ""La Bayadére"" (choreographed by Natalia Makarova after Marius Petipa), the Red Cowboy in ""Billy The Kid"" (Eugene Loring), the first sailor in ""Fancy Free"" (Jerome Robbins), Benno in ""Swan Lake"" (Kevin"
"Léo Delibes Clément Philibert Léo Delibes (; 21 February 1836 – 16 January 1891) was a French composer of the Romantic era (1815–1910), who specialised in ballets, operas, and other works for the stage. His most notable works include the ballets ""Coppélia"" (1870) and ""Sylvia"" (1876), as well as the operas ""Le roi l'a dit"" (1873) and ""Lakmé"" (1883). Delibes was born in Saint-Germain-du-Val, now part of La Flèche (Sarthe), France, in 1836; his father was a mailman, and his mother a talented amateur musician. His grandfather had been an opera singer. He was raised mainly by his mother and"